- Family : VITACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Vitaceae
- Species : Cissus quadrangularis
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cissus quadrangularis L.
- Common name : Cactus Vine, Adamant Creeper
- Vernacular name : Vajravali (San.); Hadjora (Hin.); Mangara balli, Sandu balli (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 5702, KFP 5842, KFP 6295
- Key identification features : A rambling shrub. Stem quadrangular, glabrous, winged and constricted at nodes. Leaves are simple, caducous, ovate-sub orbicular, thick and coriaceous. Cymes umbellate, calyx cup-shaped, truncate. Petals are greenish yellow, red-tipped and ovate. Berry is globose and apiculate.
- Habit : Climbing Shrub
- Native : India to Malaysia
- Comments : Common on the thickets in scrub jungle.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Tumkur
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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